Dress-shield



(No Model.)

L. BRYARLY.

DRESS SHIELD. V

Patented Dec. 6, 1887.

354 Gimme 13o,

N. PETKHS, Plwlmlilhngnphcn Washington, D. C.

. body of the dress below the armhole.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUCIE BRYARLY, OF CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE.

DRESS-SHIELD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,172, dated December 6, 1887.

Application filed April 1, 1887. Serial No. 233,285. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUcIE BRYARLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Olarksville, in the county of Montgomery and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Dress-Shields, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to dress-shields adapted to be secured to the inside of the dress at the under side of the armhole to protect the said dress from perspiration; and it consists of two layers of rubber cloth of the same size and shape secured together,with the rubber sides thereof in contact or inward, by means of the eyelets passed through and swaged on the opposite sides thereof.

My invention consists, further, in so arranging the said eyelets as to enable them to be used as perforations through which to sew to secure the shield to the dress in the proper manner to prevent the displacement of the same while in use. I

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure l is a plan view of the shield. Fig. 2 isa view of the device as seen when applied to the dress properly. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view on the line as or of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the shield, comprising two flat sheets of rubber cloth, B B, reduced at one end to enter the sleeve of the dress, while the other or broader end is disposed on the inside of the The said broader end is oval in shape, as seen at (1, having the reduced portion or tongue a, which is bounded by a compound curve.

E E are eyelets secured through both layers or sheets of the shield near the lower part of the broad portion a, placed close together,and adapted to serve as perforations through which to sew to secure the said lower or broad end to the inside of the body of the dress.

F F are also eyelets, also placed close together, for a similar purpose, near the extremity of the reduced portion a of the shield.

G H I represent pairs of eyelets disposed, respectively, at each end and in the center of the crease or bend formed in the shield at the less. the layers together, and also to serve as perseam of the armhole corresponding to the line of junction between the broad and reduced portions of the shield, the said eyelets also serving as perforations through which to sew to secure the said bend to the seam between the sleeve and the body of the dress. It will be seen that the said eyelets provide easy means of securing the shield to the dress and enable it to be taken off very readily to wash when desired; also, the provision of perforations renders it unnecessary to sew through the fabric of the shield, thus in time rendering it per vious to perspiration, and consequently worth- Further, by providing eyelets to secure forations for sewing, I add materially to the simplicity of the device; also, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the use of rubber cloth in the manufacture of my shield, as I may use oil-silk or any other material which is impermeable to moisture.

I do not wish to be limited to the number of eyelets comprising the groups, the only requisite being that the eyelets of each group should be placed close together, so that the stitches may pass through from one eyelet to the other.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

As a new article of manufacture, the herein-deseribed dress-protector,composed of two sheets of material impervious to moisture, substantially as described, said sheets being secured together before being applied to the dress by eyelets,which eyelets are clustered or arranged together in various groups,whereby said eyelets provide openings through which to sew and secure the protector in place, the arrangement of the eyelets in groups enabling the stitches to be passed from one eyelet to another, as set forth.

In testimony thatI claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

LUCIE BRYARLY.

Witnesses:

IDA FRANKLIN, J ENNIE SMITH. 

